SIX weeks of "torture" for a family came to an end when they laid their parents to rest - finally at peace.

The Mist family were thrown into turmoil when detectives and officials insisted tests showed their father Peter's coffin wasn't lying in his wife Susan's grave.

But an exhumation yesterday at Ty Rhiw Cemetery in Taff's Well proved the records and X-ray ground checks were flawed - Peter's body was buried under Susan's coffin after all.

And yesterday afternoon traumatised relatives gathered once again for a simple ceremony to re-bury the couple together again.

The graveyard - along with the neighbouring Cefn Y Parc and Glyn Taff cemeteries - is at the centre of a South Wales Police investigation of a dozen mis-recorded burials, which has already seen one official of Rhondda Cynon Taf council suspended.

One of their five children, Helen Phillips, 33, from Tongwynlais, said: "It's a shock to find he was in mum's grave when the council was 99 per cent certain he was not.

"We've been through so many mixed emotions in the last weeks - it's been torture with half of us under the doctor for stress or unable to sleep - and we've still not even had a formal apology from the council.

"But at least burying mum and dad together properly gives us some closure so we can get back to normal.

"The council must take its procedures back to the drawing board to ensure they don't put other families through this. We'll pursue our legal case against them to ensure they do."

Lawyer John Graham, of Thomas Graham Solicitors, representing five families who suffered from the confusion, said: "It's terrible they've had to go through this whole process of exhumation and excavation because the council couldn't get its records right."